Lets start with
why ESD Hand Lotion is used. United has
tested
electrical conductivity of babies! That's right!
Newborns! Finger tips to her cute little toes! Note: The
test subject giggled profusely when tested and came in with stellar
conductivity of 330 K Ohms! Of course a baby's skin is
soft, supple and moist. It provides a fingertip to
toe conductivity well below 1 meg ohm in resistance.
This was the PERFECT electrical conductivity for
static control. The problem?

Environmental
Conditions Reduce the Static Conductivity of your
Skin!

When skin ages
essential nutrients are lost - washing the hands
removes more natural oils and drying the hands
removes the water normally inherent in the skin.
Skin that starts out as being static conductive can
climb well into the insulative range of electrical
conductivity!

All
wrist strap and heel strap testers rely on the
skin's electrical conductivity to take the charge
from the conductive fingertip test button to the
termination of what you are testing (be it wrist
straps OR heel straps).

Whether using heel straps
OR wrist straps they
RELY on the charges from your hands dissipating thru
your primary grounding system! So, if your hands and wrist are dry and
lack the nutrients and natural moisture that make them conductive a
perfectly good ESD Wrist Strap or Heel Strap will
FAIL and ESD sensitive builds? Compromised!

So Why Won't
Standard Hand Lotions Work?

Check the label! Even high quality standard hand
lotions may contain silicones, lanolin, Squalene (a
hydrocarbon and a triterpene) and even worse . . .
PARABENS. Not only do these chemicals contaminate
PCB's and Clean Room Products they can interfere
with soldering and cause corrosion on specific
metals. Plus, they tend to build up on the
conductive portion of wrist strap reducing the
straps ability to dissipate the charge. Not So with
HL-3408!Static Solutions HL-3408 is a static
dissipative moisturizing hand and face lotion
formulated specifically for use in and around static
sensitive electronics. It is clean room compliant,
will not effect the solderability of electronics of
cause corrosion of electrical contacts.